Darfur Peace and Development

Press Statement
Adam Ereli, Deputy Spokesman
Washington, DC

The United States is pleased to announce a contribution of $17.85 million to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to continue to provide assistance and protection for over 200,000 Sudanese who have sought refuge in Chad as a result of the continuing conflict and deprivation in Darfur. The United States has provided nearly $100 million towards appeals from UNHCR, the World…

Source: Global Rights, 16 February 2005

A distinguished panel of experts gathered at Global Rights’ Washington, DC
headquarters to address an audience of more than 100 guests on the subject
of the United Nations’ response to the ongoing crisis in Darfur, Sudan.
Moderated by Global Rights’ Board Chair Jim Fitzpatrick, the speakers – Kelly
Askin, Senior Legal Officer of the International Justice Program at the Open
Society Institute; Salih Booker, Executive Director of Africa Action; Omer…

Sudan

UN News Centre 30 July 2004 Sudan must act on Darfur in 30 days or face measures, Security Council warns 30 July 2004 – The Security Council today adopted a resolution paving the way for action against Sudan in 30 days if it does not make progress on pledges to disarm the militias accused of indiscriminate murders, rapes and other attacks against civilians in the Darfur region – a move…

Committee on International Relations
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515-0128

Omer G. Ismail
Program Director, Darfur Peace and Development
May 6, 2004:”Ethnic Cleansing In Darfur”
House Committee on International Relations

In the wake of the tenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, the world that had said “never again” several times in the past, has come face to face with another human catastrophe. The present crisis in Darfur, far Western Sudan, is of different character, yet…

Opening Remarks of Chairman Henry J. Hyde before the Full Committee on “The Crisis in Darfur: A New Front in Sudan´s Bloody War”

Thursday, May 6, 2004
2172 Rayburn House Office Building

The Committee will come to order.

On April 7, 2004, the world commemorated the tenth anniversary of one of the darkest chapters in the 20th Century: the Rwandan genocide. World leaders gathered in Kigali, expressed their regret for not having done more…

Roger Winter
Assistant Administrator
Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance
U.S. Agency for International Development
before the
Committee on International Relations
U.S. House of Representatives
May 6, 2004

“Ethnic Cleansing in Darfur: A New Front Opens in Sudan´s Bloody War”

Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to testify today. Over the years, this Committee has shown great interest in Sudan, and it has influenced more constructive change than you will ever know…

Statement of the Honorable Dan Burton
House International Relations Committee
Hearing on the Crisis in Darfur: A New Front in SudanØŒs Bloody War
Thursday, MAY 6, 2004

Mr. Chairman, I join with my colleagues today to draw urgent attention to one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world today: Sudan. I want to condemn the Sudanese governmentØŒs failure to stop the Janjaweed-armed Arab militias from a rampage of violence they have conducted for…

“Ethnic Cleansing in Darfur: A New Front Opens in Sudan’s Bloody War”
House Committee on International Relations

Thank you, Mr Chairman, for the invitation to testify at this hearing, and for the Committee’s unflagging interest in the multi-faceted crisis in Sudan.

My first opportunity to testify to a Congressional committee occurred nearly fifteen years ago, when I spoke of a government in Khartoum that was using ethnic-based militias to undertake ethnic cleansing in…

“The Crisis in Darfur: A New Front in Sudan’s Bloody War”

The killing in western Sudan demands the worldØŒs attention. Thank you for calling this hearing, and mark-up of H. Con. Res. 403, which condemns Sudan’s government for attacks against civilians in the Darfur region.

The numbers are grim. The Government’s scorched earth policies have killed tens of thousands, and displaced a million people, many forced into Chad. Hundreds of villages have…

Save the Children

Mr. Chairman, thank you for providing Save the Children the opportunity to testify before your committee and for your leadership in bringing us together to discuss the plight of the peoples in Darfur.

Save the Children has been working in Sudan since 1984. Save the ChildrenØŒs current programs in Sudan include the provision of humanitarian response and capacity enhancement for disaster affected populations. Save the Children is addressing the…